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I love art, I love music. I can listen to Stockhausen and a very experimental, avant-garde approach, and I can listen to Beethoven and have a more classical, traditional approach. Why not be able to do that with film performance?

Nicolas Cage

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Nicolas Cage
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 7
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